James Gurney

This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.

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I don't find him incoherent. For example Mike Wallace says he was lost half way through his painted prophecy of the flexibility of time and space in his "Persistence of Memory" painting. Seems reasonable to me. He understands physics better than most. I think I do as well but have not accomplished the expression of these concepts in paint. Whenever I try to express it words or it's explained through mathematics it does sound incoherent. A visual medium is more appropriate for this subject because so much is happening in parallel.

I think art is synesthesia, the mixing of the senses. Creativity comes from the mixing of ideas. Likely from the distribution of myelin in brain architecture. He's demonstrated these two theories or perhaps now proven discoveries in neuroscience in this interview by jumping from one idea to another.

His pre-birth memories, his talk about himself in the third person or referring to himself as a genius sounds like he's demonstrating, Meta Cognition. Thinking about thinking has become a main idea or thesis in these two sources that focus on neuroscience and physics, How We Decide by Jonah Leher and Athene's 'Theory of Everything' - A new take on neuroscience in relation to quantum physics.

Christianity's emphasis on the triune structure of all things for me makes it the best accurate description of our universe and other dimensions. I can understand why he would move towards it.

I completely agree with all these responses. I was about to disagree with you on your comment about Dali James, and now I am stumped by how well your readers replied. Dali was brilliant beyond his art even, as most of the art masters are. Ultimately art is not enough for these geniuses, only eternity defined will do. They do not rest, until they at least get a glimpse. But how would I know?How's that for incoherent speak...lol?

In fairness to Dali, some of the troubles with the interview must have come from the language barrier. He might have been an Oscar Wilde type wit in Spanish, I don't know. But I think this could have been better theater: a rational and buttoned-down mind meets a wild, irrational mind, or at least someone posing as one.